Lord Lieutenants

Kevan Jones: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will publish a list of the public engagements of the Lord Lieutenant for County Durham for the last 12 months.

Chloe Smith: The activities of lord lieutenants are not the responsibility of central Government. It is a matter for each lord lieutenant to determine how he/she carries out his/her role. Accordingly, it is up to each lord lieutenant to promote honours as they see fit for their lieutenancy and to conduct public engagements appropriate to their role and relevant to their county.

Pensioners: Scotland

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many pensioners there were in each income quintile in Scotland in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Steve Webb: I have been asked to reply 
	on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
	Estimates on the income distribution are published annually in the Households Below Average Income Series. The latest year of data which is available is for 2010-11. For both tables three year periods spanning 2006-07 to 2010-11 have been used as single-year regional estimates are subject to volatility.
	Table 1 shows the number of pensioners in each income quintile in Scotland, in each of the last three years, before housing costs, and Table 2 for after housing costs.
	
		
			 Table 1: Numbers of Pensioners in Scotland (millions), by income quintile, before housing costs, three-year averages 
			  Net equivalised disposable household income  
			  Bottom quintile Second quintile Middle quintile Fourth quintile Top quintile All pensioners (million) 
			 2006-07 to 2008-09 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.9 
			 2007-08 to 2009-10 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 1.0 
			 2008-09 to 2010-11 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 1.0 
		
	
	
		
			 Table 2: Numbers of Pensioners in Scotland (millions), by income quintile, after housing costs, three-year averages 
			  Net equivalised disposable household income  
			  Bottom quintile Second quintile Middle quintile Fourth quintile Top quintile All pensioners (million) 
			 2006-07 to 2008-09 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.9 
			 2007-08 to 2009-10 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 1.0 
			 2008-09 to 2010-11 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 1.0 
			 Notes: 1. These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data sourced from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). This uses disposable household income, adjusted using modified OECD equivalisation factors for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living. 2. Net disposable incomes have been used to answer the question. This includes earnings from employment and self-employment, state support, income from occupational and private pensions, investment income and other sources. Income tax payments, national insurance contributions, council tax/domestic rates and some other payments are deducted from incomes. 3. Figures have been presented on a before housing cost and an after housing cost basis. For before housing costs, housing costs are not deducted from income, while for after housing costs they are. 4. The preferred income measure for pensioners is after housing costs. Around three quarters of pensioners own their own homes and so have to pay out minimal housing costs from their disposable income compared to the current working age population who typically have to cover mortgage or rental housing costs. Considering pensioners' incomes compared to others after deducting housing costs allows for more meaningful comparisons of income between working age people and pensioners, and between pensioners overtime. 5. All estimates are based on survey data and are therefore subject to a degree of uncertainty. Small differences should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. 6. The reference period for HBAI figures is the financial year. Three survey years have been combined because single year estimates are not considered to be sufficiently reliable. 7. Numbers of pensioners have been rounded to the nearest hundred thousand pensioners. 8. Figures may not sum due to rounding. 9. Longer time series data on pensioners is available within chapter 6 of the Households Below Average Income report at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/index.php?page=hbai_arc

Tax Avoidance: Self-employed

Guto Bebb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  what representations he has received on and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the IR35 guidance issued in May 2012;
	(2)  when he plans to carry out the next IR25 review; and if he will publish the findings of that review;
	(3)  what assessment he has made of the compliance activity and administration of IR35 since the 2011 Budget.

David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has not received any representations on the IR35 guidance since it was published in May 2012.
	Initial indications show a positive improvement in HMRC's administration of IR35.
	HMRC will be reviewing their new approach to IR35 during summer 2013. The results and any findings of this review will be initially shared with the IR35 Forum and published once they have been finalised.

VAT: Energy

Tracey Crouch: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with his European counterparts on the Reasoned Opinion of the European Commission on the UK's reduced rate of VAT for energy saving materials.

David Gauke: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given on 27 November 2012, Official Report, column 309W, and on 22 October 2012, Official Report, column 623W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond Park (Zac Goldsmith).

Foster Care: Crimes of Violence

Andrew Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many foster parents were assaulted by their foster children in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Edward Timpson: Figures on assaults by foster children of their foster carers are not collected centrally.
	Foster carers should be supported to manage the needs of their foster children in a way that keeps the child, the foster carer and the foster carer's family safe. If despite appropriate support it is clear that the child cannot be cared for within a particular placement in a way that is safe for all concerned, the responsible local authority should review the child's care plan to decide whether they should be moved to a more appropriate placement.

High Speed 2 Railway Line

Cheryl Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many HS2 Exceptional Hardship Scheme applications have been rejected on grounds that they failed to fulfil EHS criteria (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four and (e) five.

Simon Burns: The following table sets out the number of times the Exceptional Hardship Scheme (EHS) panel has recommended that an application has not met each of the criteria for the scheme:
	
		
			  Criteria Number of times 
			 1 Property type 22 
			 2 Location of property 107 
			 3 Effort to sell 169 
			 4 No prior knowledge 0 
			 5 Exceptional hardship 244 
		
	
	It should be noted that an unsuccessful application may fail to meet more than one criterion so the sum of the number of times criteria have not been met is greater than the number of unsuccessful applications to the EHS.

Rescue Services: Snow and Ice

Maria Eagle: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the potential effect of adverse winter weather on the work of the coastguard stations at (a) Brixham, (b) Clyde, (c) Forth, (d) Great Yarmouth, (e) Liverpool, (f) Portland, (g) Swansea and (h) Walton-on-the-Naze.

Stephen Hammond: The Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Business Continuity Plans (BCP) are function based and not location based so no specific assessment has been made of the locations listed.
	The approach to resilience is common to all Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centres, and the associated 164 Remote Radio Sites (RRS) situated throughout the UK. The implementation of a plan will be subject to further risk assessment that takes into account the reason why the BCP has been invoked and the prevailing weather.

Roads: Animals

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries have occurred as a result of road traffic accidents involving animals in the last year.

Stephen Hammond: In Great Britain in 2011 there were eight fatalities and 139 serious injuries resulting from personal injury road accidents involving animals (other than a ridden horse) in the carriageway.

Roads: Animals

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of road traffic accidents involving animals.

Stephen Hammond: The Department for Transport publishes the overall costs of road traffic accidents in ‘Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain: 2011 Annual Report’, which is available at:
	http://assets.dft.gov.uk/statistics/releases/road-accidents-and-safety-annual-report-2011/rrcgb2011-04.pdf
	The report gives the number of reported road traffic accidents in 2011 where a police officer attended the scene and recorded an animal or object in the carriageway as a contributory factor in fatal, serious or slight accidents.
	However, no estimate has been made of the costs to the public purse of road traffic accidents involving animals.

Apache Helicopters

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his policy is on the wet assembly for the Apache helicopter; what estimate he has made of the associated costs; and if he will make a statement.

Philip Dunne: holding answer 28 November 2012
	The current Apache AH Mk1 aircraft are based on the US Army Apache AH64D. In common with those aircraft, the Apache AH MK1 airframes were dry-built. There is currently no engineering solution available, and therefore no cost information, for undertaking a retro-wet assembly of the in-service aircraft airframes. They have, however, been treated with a two stage protection process to reduce the effects of corrosion and maintain the airworthiness of the aircraft in the maritime operating environment.

Military Alliances

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he is taking to ensure that partner companies in future collaborative defence projects are chosen by a lead prime contractor as in the Joint Strike Fighter project.

Philip Dunne: The industrial arrangements for the Joint Strike Fighter are an example of good practice in collaborative defence projects. That said, the industrial arrangements that underpin production in future projects will be determined on a case by case basis by the participating nations.
	The Ministry of Defence will require future collaborative defence projects to provide value for money through shared investment and economies of scale in production. And, wherever possible, our preference is to have a lead prime contractor selected on the basis of open competition throughout the supply chain.

Agricultural Wages Board

Mary Creagh: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  how many responses he has received to the consultation on the closure of the Agricultural Wages Board; and when the consultation response will be available on his Department's website and in the Library;
	(2)  how many responses his Department has received to its consultation on the closure of the Agricultural Wages Board; and when the consultation response will be published.

David Heath: DEFRA is currently considering the responses to the consultation exercise on the proposed abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board, 15 Agricultural Wages Committee and 16 Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committees in England. Details of the responses to the consultation will be made available in due course.

Marine Conservation Zones

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what account he will be taking of the Government's seven design principles in the Ecological Network guidance in his Department's recommendations in the forthcoming consultation on marine conservation zone network designations.

Richard Benyon: In its guidance provided to the Regional Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) Projects, the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies (SNCBs) interpreted the seven design principles to provide operational guidance to the projects to identify possible locations for MCZs. DEFRA is considering these site recommendations from the Regional MCZ Projects, along with their impact assessment and advice from the SNCBs to identify sites suitable for designation in the first tranche, and expects to consult on these shortly.

Burma

Jonathan Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions her Department has had on ensuring effective co-ordination between the different humanitarian aid agencies providing assistance in the Rakhine district.

Alan Duncan: DFID has provided £2 million in humanitarian relief for the victims of violence in Rakhine state. DFID support is being provided by a consortium of international non-governmental organisations.
	In this work, and throughout DFID's funding in Burma, DFID encourages the United Nations (UN) to strengthen its co-ordination of assistance; and works to ensure the Burmese Government co-ordinates its response with the UN and others. DFID also takes steps to allow full, co-ordinated, humanitarian access to the areas affected by conflict such as Rakhine state.

Dementia

Paul Burstow: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps his Department is taking to support the Prime Minister's dementia challenge and the work of each of the challenge groups; what resources he has committed and what timescales he has set for this work; and if he will make a statement.

Nick Hurd: The Cabinet Office is supporting the Prime Minister’s dementia challenge through our support for the One Million Dementia Friends initiative. The Cabinet Office are providing £1,191,049 of funding to the Alzheimer’s Society to recruit 1 million dementia friends by 2015 who will provide support and understanding to dementia sufferers within their communities.

Unemployment

Andrew Griffiths: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many unemployed people there were in each ward of each local authority area on the latest date for which figures are available.

Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	Letter from Glen Watson, dated November 2012
	As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many unemployed people there were in each ward of each local authority area on the latest date for which figures are available. (130832)
	The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles unemployment statistics in line with International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions for local areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS). Unfortunately the sample size does not support analyses of unemployment for the requested geography.
	As an alternative, we have provided the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) by ward, in October 2012. As the requested data is quite extensive, a copy of the table has been placed in the House of Commons Library. Wards have been ordered by local authority within region.
	National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:
	http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

Affordable Housing

Steve Rotheram: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many affordable homes there are in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) England.

Mark Prisk: Figures for local authority and private registered provider (housing association) stock at local authority district level can be found in Live Table 100 on the Department for Communities and Local Government website at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants
	The figures include dwellings for social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent but may exclude those in 'shared ownership'.
	Information is collected at local authority level and therefore figures at constituency level are not available.

Dementia

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps his Department is taking to support the Prime Minister's dementia challenge and the work of each of the challenge groups; what resources he has committed and what timescales he has set for this work; and if he will make a statement.

Brandon Lewis: My Department is supporting the Prime Minister's Dementia Challenge and the work of the Health and Social Care champions group by facilitating a Housing and Dementia Working Group. The working group brings together key sector organisations and has four sub-groups looking at: information and advice, the role of good housing and related services in early intervention, design of dementia-friendly housing and skills for the work force.
	The working group will be holding a seminar with key building professionals on dementia-friendly design in January 2013. The group will also be producing a report in February 2013 on the role of housing and early intervention in the dementia care pathway. The group is working with Skills for Care and SCIE to make better use of existing dementia training resources available for the housing sector by February 2013. The National Housing Federation is also hosting two events in February 2013 to promote the work of the group and raise the profile of dementia among housing providers.

Land: Public Sector

Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many houses have been (a) started and (b) completed on sites which had previously been identified by Government Departments in their land disposal plans.

Mark Prisk: To free up more surplus land for new housing, the Government is committed to releasing formerly used land, owned by central Government, capable of delivering up to 100,000 homes by April 2015. We have identified the surplus land for 100,000 homes and, to date, we have already sold land to support the building of an estimated 33,000 new homes, at the best price for the taxpayer.
	My Department does not collate information centrally on housing starts and completions on these individual sites; where sites are in private ownership, there is no requirement for the new owners to report starts or completions to central Government, and we do not intend to impose administrative reporting burdens which could hinder sale of the sites.
	The Government will provide an update on progress of the programme at the autumn statement.

Religious Hatred

Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent assessment he has made of the extent of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the UK.

Don Foster: Hate crime, including that targeting a person's religion, is an issue the Government takes very seriously. We believe that understanding the extent of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred in the UK helps us tackle hate crime in all its forms. Therefore we are working with the Association of Chief Police Officers and other partners to encourage the reporting of all hate crime and improve the response of the police and other criminal justice agencies to ensure better protection for victims. The Association of Chief Police Officers records anti-Semitic crime at the national level which is broken down by police force area. The latest figures were published in September 2011 and full details can be found at:
	http://report-it.org.uk/hate_crime_data1
	We are working alongside the Community Security Trust and funding Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks, both of whom record anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim incidents. And we have established cross-Government working groups on both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred.

Arts

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans her Department has for support to creative businesses of a size below small or sub-scale enterprises.

Edward Vaizey: Government support for the creative industries is primarily channelled through the Creative Industries Council, which was established as a joint forum between the creative industries and Government to address areas where there are barriers facing the sector and to help the growth of creative businesses of all sizes. Jointly chaired by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Women and Equalities, my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Maria Miller), the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable) and Nicola Mendelsohn, Chair of the IPA, the council focuses on finding practical solutions to issues across the sector, including skills and access to finance. Sub-groups of the council produced reports into both of these areas this year, which were welcomed by the council, and work is continuing to be taken forward.
	In addition, in Budget 2012, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced the introduction of three new tax reliefs for high end TV, video games and animation, building on the success of the film tax relief, which should benefit the whole sector.

Gambling

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 
	(1)  what estimate she has made of how many people within Havering have a gambling problem; and what steps her Department is taking to help them;
	(2)  what steps she is taking to help people with gambling addictions.

Hugh Robertson: The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010, published by the Gambling Commission at the following link:
	www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk
	showed that 0.7% or 0.9% of the adult population, depending on the measure used, are likely to be problem gamblers. Data on problem gambling is not collected by local authority area.
	British based gambling operators must comply with licence conditions requiring them to signpost assistance to gamblers in gambling premises, on websites and in advertising. The Government believes the industry should play a leading role in helping to tackle problem gambling. The Responsible Gambling Trust is an independent national charity that raises voluntary contributions from the industry to fund problem gambling research, education and treatment. This includes a national problem gambling helpline, the Gamble Aware website, and it has recently signed a new three-year agreement with Gamcare to expand the provision of treatment services for gamblers and others adversely affected by gambling.

Prisons: Training

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make it his policy that the post of Head of Learning and Skills in a training prison should always be a full-time post.

Jeremy Wright: Training prisons is a term that captures a number of prison establishments that vary in size, prison population and complexity. What is appropriate for one may not be for another. NOMS is restructuring all pubic sector prisons individually to ensure that we get the appropriate structures at all sites. These new structures will offer best value for money while continuing to deliver safe, decent and secure prisons.
	The head of Learning and Skills post is a specialist post which is a crucial part of effective delivery of the rehabilitation revolution in all establishments. They are a key part of the process to deliver education in prisons and are supported by regional leads and by heads of Reducing Re-offending locally. Every governor has assessed the requirements of each post in their new structures, and in cases where they have concluded that a role is not a full-time post they have been linked to other part-time roles. This approach has been most often taken in smaller establishments and is appropriate. Each prison structure has been approved by a deputy director of custody who has responsibility to ensure the funding from Business Innovation and Skills is used most appropriately and effectively.

Risley Prison

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff at HM Prison Risley have worked over their contracted hours and have not received time off in lieu within five weeks in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the total number of hours owed to staff is.

Jeremy Wright: HM Prison Risley are unable to provide the data required within the timescale allowed. The information will follow in correspondence.

Secondment

Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether any individuals employed by (a) major UK utility companies, (b) Energy UK or (c) any related energy utility organisation seconded to his Department have had regular contact with the private offices of Ministers of State during their secondment since May 2010.

Gregory Barker: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him today to PQ 130167, which outlines all relevant secondees in DECC.
	One secondee from major UK utility company had contact with private offices of Ministers of State.
	Three secondees from any related energy utility organisations have had regular contact with the private offices of Ministers of State.

Warm Front Scheme

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many people have made successful applications for grants under the Warm Front scheme for (a) loft insulation, (b) draught-proofing, (c) cavity wall insulation, (d) hot water tank insulation, (e) gas, electric, liquid petroleum gas or oil heating, (f) converting solid-fuel open fire to a glass-fronted fire and (g) replacing heating systems with an oil or alternative technology system in each county in England since the introduction of the scheme.

Gregory Barker: The following table shows the volume of installations completed through the Warm Front scheme for the following measures type; (a) loft insulation, (b) draught-proofing, (c) cavity wall insulation, (d) hot water tank insulation, (e) gas, electric, liquid petroleum gas or oil heating, (f) converting solid-fuel open fire to a glass-fronted fire and (g) replacing heating systems with an oil or alternative technology system in each county in England from April 2006/7 to 31 October.
	
		
			 County Sum of loft insulation Sum of draughtproofing Sum of cavity wall insulation Sum of hot water tank jacket Sum of gas, electric, LPG or oil fuel central heating Sum of conversions of solid-fuel open fires to glass-fronted fires Sum of gas, LPG, oil or solid fuel boiler replacements Total measures 
			 Bedfordshire 2,310 1,161 1,050 224 768 0 4,088 9,601 
			 Berkshire 1,612 820 895 119 589 0 1,724 5,759 
			 Buckinghamshire 2,117 1,009 983 159 442 0 2,318 7,028 
		
	
	
		
			 Cambridgeshire 2,496 1,002 959 324 847 0 2,743 8,371 
			 Cheshire 6,297 2,564 4,200 795 2,479 2 9,265 25,602 
			 City of Bristol 1,698 967 700 255 729 0 2,079 6,431 
			 Cornwall 2,223 954 968 212 4,375 0 2,798 11,530 
			 Cumbria 3,224 1,593 1,713 505 2,270 1 3,360 12,666 
			 Derbyshire 6,818 2,192 2,720 713 2,380 0 8,043 22,866 
			 Devon 5,520 2,572 3,572 573 4,981 0 6,712 23,930 
			 Dorset 2,496 1,147 1,704 278 1,560 0 3,424 10,609 
			 Durham 4,716 1,743 2,252 335 1,701 0 14,633 25,380 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 3,560 1,130 1,195 230 2,700 0 5,045 13,860 
			 East Sussex 3,060 2,487 2,088 352 1,815 0 3,410 13,212 
			 Essex 9,917 4,862 5,717 1,333 3,120 0 10,050 34,999 
			 Gloucestershire 3,814 1,588 2,067 412 1,483 0 3,221 12,585 
			 Greater London 15,368 11,813 3,615 1,418 4,738 0 20,817 57,769 
			 Greater Manchester 17,514 10,890 12,407 1,936 8,386 0 38,223 89,356 
			 Hampshire 4,491 2,416 3,587 351 2,682 0 5,821 19,348 
			 Herefordshire 701 496 401 87 546 0 771 3,002 
			 Hertfordshire 3,291 1,699 1,770 304 744 0 3,078 10,886 
			 Isle of Wight 752 499 645 89 674 0 705 3,364 
			 Kent 6,998 3,285 3,862 390 2,698 0 7,161 24,394 
			 Lancashire 12,421 7,531 8,054 1,773 9,292 0 20,782 59,853 
			 Leicestershire 4,413 2,113 1,528 637 1,255 0 7,401 17,347 
			 Lincolnshire 9,607 2,840 3,723 824 3,256 0 9,047 29,297 
			 Merseyside 11,826 7,873 5,443 1,739 8,456 0 21,755 57,092 
			 Norfolk 5,660 2,142 2,619 639 2,427 0 4,358 17,845 
			 North Yorkshire 7,004 3,052 3,398 838 2,751 0 8,400 25,443 
			 Northamptonshire 2,319 1,043 1,064 243 1,109 1 3,989 9,768 
			 Northumberland 1,176 660 591 122 436 1 2,731 5,717 
			 Nottinghamshire 6,792 2,092 2,681 862 1,747 0 9,323 23,497 
			 Oxfordshire 1,507 1,005 704 184 516 0 1,258 5,174 
			 Rutland 111 92 55 22 25 0 82 387 
			 Shropshire 2,206 1,049 1,156 311 745 0 2,261 7J28 
			 Somerset 4,727 1,945 2,827 540 2,246 0 3,858 16,143 
			 South Yorkshire 7,104 1,986 3,362 785 1,869 0 14,084 29,190 
			 Staffordshire 6,886 2,513 4,393 938 2,956 0 11,403 29,089 
			 Suffolk 4,325 2,232 1,764 545 1,755 0 2,760 13,381 
			 Surrey 2,037 1,288 1,314 340 629 0 1,965 7,573 
			 Tyne and Wear 4,073 1,784 2,447 231 1,435 0 14,025 23,995 
			 Warwickshire 2,329 789 901 '201 924 0 3,145 8,289 
			 West Midlands 16,753 8,825 6,639 1,495 12,008 0 31,606 77,326 
			 West Sussex 2,902 1,447 2,120 244 1,602 0 3,308 11,623 
			 West Yorkshire 11,156 5,275 6,141 900 14,510 1 21,619 59,602 
			 Wiltshire 1,956 874 1,206 138 1,025 0 2,125 7,324 
			 Worcestershire 2,710 1,444 1,394 403 1,137 0 3,107 10,195 
			 Grand total 242,993 120,783 124,594 26,351 126,818 6 363,881 1,005,426 
			 Notes: 1. Data by county is not available prior to April 2006. 2. Figures represent the volumes of installations against each measure set out above, more than one measure may have been installed per household.

Warm Home Discount Scheme

Nicholas Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many people previously in receipt of invalidity benefit and yet to be assessed for employment and support allowance will therefore not be eligible to receive the warm home discount.

Gregory Barker: The Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011 include a range of working age means tested benefits which energy suppliers may choose to use to provide support to the Broader Group of the Warm Home Discount scheme. The Broader Group is designed to require suppliers to provide support in the form of energy bill discounts to a wider group of low income households than those low income pensioners assisted under the Core Group of the Warm Home Discount scheme. Broader Group scheme eligibility criteria are set by each energy supplier, although each scheme requires approval by Ofgem. This year suppliers are required to spend a minimum of £47 million on providing support to the Broader Group, assisting at least 360,000 low income and vulnerable households.
	Invalidity benefit was replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995. Around 1.5 million incapacity benefit recipients are being reassessed to see if they are eligible for contributory employment and support allowance. Incapacity benefit claimants will not miss out on the Warm Home Discount because of the reassessment programme as they may still qualify if they are currently eligible for income support. The qualifying working age means tested benefits laid down in the regulations are income support, income-related ESA and income-based JSA.

Warm Home Discount Scheme

Nicholas Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what mechanisms are in place to identify recipients of universal credit who are eligible for the warm homes discount.

Gregory Barker: The Warm Home Discount scheme uses regulation-making powers under the Pension Act 2008 to introduce regulations which allow for a data-matching scheme to identify pensioners on a subset of pension credit to receive a discount on their electricity bill. The introduction of universal credit will not affect the identification of recipients of pension credit for the Core Group of Warm Home Discount.
	The Warm Home Discount scheme regulations 2011 also include a range of working age means-tested benefits which energy suppliers may choose to use to provide support to the Broader Group. The Broader Group requires energy suppliers to provide support in the form of discounts on their electricity bill to a wider group of low income households. For Broader Group schemes, eligibility criteria are set by each energy supplier but are required to be approved by Ofgem. The list of working age benefits set out in the regulations will be amended to include universal credit.
	Broader Group schemes require an application from customers to their participating energy supplier. In order to support this, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) provide a verification service to the energy suppliers where information on working age benefits is used to provide an eligibility check. We are working closely with DWP to ensure the introduction of universal credit works smoothly with our schemes and continues to target the support available at those most in need while reflecting the eligibility criteria currently within the schemes' legislation.

Disability Living Allowance: Kingston Upon Hull

Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Hull are currently in receipt of disability living allowance; how many of those receive the mobility component; how many receive cars through Motability; how many have been assessed in the last six months; and how many outstanding assessments of people in Hull will need to be completed before the transfer to personal independence payments.

Esther McVey: Information relating to the numbers of disability living allowance (DLA) recipients in the three parliamentary constituencies of Hull, including the number with a Motability vehicle, is contained in Table 1.
	The Department only holds information on DLA new claims that have been assessed or are waiting to be assessed at Great Britain (GB) level. Table 2 provides information on the number of DLA new claims assessed in the previous six months and those outstanding, at GB level, as at 31 October 2012.
	
		
			 Table 1 
			  Total number of those in receipt of DLA Total number of those in receipt of higher rate mobility component Total number of those in receipt of lower rate mobility component Total number of DLA claimants not in receipt of either mobility component Total number of those DLA claimants with a motability vehicle 
			 Kingston upon Hull North 5,930 3,520 1,650 760 1,138 
			 Kingston upon Hull East 6,230 3,840 1,620 780 1,067 
			 Kingston upon Hull and Hessle 5,740 3,370 1,730 650 955 
			 Total 17,900 10,730 5,000 2,190 3,160 
			 Notes: 1. Caseload figures rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Totals show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital. 3. Information on Motability vehicles supplied by Motability Scheme. Source: DWP Information, Governance and Security, Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 
		
	
	
		
			 Table 2 
			  Total number of DLA new claims assessed from 1 May 2012 to 31 October 2012 Total number of DLA new claims awaiting assessment as at 31 October 2012 
			 National GB Data 219,900 39,700 
			 Notes: 1. Figures rounded to the nearest 100. 2. Data is Great Britain level Source: Department for Work and Pensions—RDA60209, RDA60205 and RDA80123 reports—Disability Living Allowance Management Information Statistics

Epilepsy

Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent discussions his Department has had with epilepsy disability organisations on the personalised independence payment.

Esther McVey: Throughout the development of personal independence payment we have engaged and consulted with a wide range of disability organisations. This included a discussion with Epilepsy Action on the personal independence payment assessment criteria.
	We are also working with disability stakeholder organisations on personal independence payment delivery issues through the implementation stakeholder forum. Disability organisations who support people with a wide range of disabilities are represented on this forum. We are keeping this group up to date on personal independence payment developments on a regular basis.

Housing Benefit: Kingston Upon Hull

Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of how many people in Hull will have their housing benefit reduced in the benefit changes due to come into effect in April 2013.

Steve Webb: The information is not available to estimate the number of households affected in Hull by all the forthcoming housing benefit changes. However, tables showing the number of households who will be affected by the benefit cap, by local authority, was placed in the Library and can be found at:
	http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2012-1447/LocalAuthoritybreakdownaffectedbybenefitcap.doc
	In both of the tables household numbers are rounded to the nearest 100. Areas with fewer than 100 households affected are denoted by "..", as additional disclosure control has been applied to these areas. For this reason, figures will not sum to the total number of households affected in the July 2012 Impact Assessment for the household benefit cap.
	These estimates assume that the situation of these households will go unchanged, and they will not take any steps to either work enough hours to qualify for working tax credit, renegotiate their rent in situ, or find alternative accommodation. In all cases the Department is working to support households through this transition, using existing provision through Jobcentre Plus and the Work programme to move as many into work as possible. Therefore, these figures are subject to change prior to the policy being implemented from April 2013.

Procurement

Robert Halfon: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent estimate he has made of the success of introducing Schedule 10 into his Department's standard contract for services in July 2011; what assessment he has made of the change in the cost-base of the affected contracts; and if he will make a statement.

Mark Hoban: The schedule 10 (Apprenticeships and Skills Requirements) is a mandatory schedule in the DWP standard terms and conditions for all service contracts with a value over £10,000. Its inclusion is also considered when using other Government Department's contracts or frameworks.
	DWP do not require bidders to break down their pricing proposal to detail specific costs resulting from the inclusion of the schedule. The overall contract cost is considered as part of the evaluation process to ensure the contract gives DWP the best value for money.
	The supplier is contractually required to provide an annual report. As yet we do not have systems in place to analyse these on a departmental basis. Additionally, through our key supplier forum, we intend to ask our partners to provide greater visibility of the metrics on apprenticeships enabling us to track this on an ongoing basis.

Ambulance Services: West Midlands

Joan Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the West Midlands Ambulance Service's performance in respect of the Ambulance Clinical Quality Indicators 2011-12.

Anna Soubry: The Department does not monitor ambulance trusts against the clinical outcomes. It does monitor system indicators, including response times, which show that West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust achieved all the required standards in September 2012, the most recent period for which data is available.

Armed Forces: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Jason McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many former service personnel were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in England in (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011.

Daniel Poulter: This information is not collected by the national health service in England.
	This Government considers the health and wellbeing of armed forces personnel, veterans and their families to be a top priority. The Under-Secretary of State for Defence, my hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison), published his review of mental health services for veterans in October 2010, and funding of £7.2 million was put in place to implement his recommendations. As a result, England as a whole now benefits from a number of enhanced services targeted at veterans' mental health and wellbeing. These include the 24-hour veterans' mental health helpline run by Rethink, in partnership with Combat Stress; Combat Stress is also funded up to £16 million through to 2015 to provide specialist post traumatic stress disorder treatment through a six-week programme; the emotional health support service Big White Wall; and a general practitioner awareness-raising e-learning package run with the Royal College of General Practitioners. In addition, enhanced veterans' mental health support services have been put in place across the country, with additional NHS mental health professionals providing support to veterans.

Blood: Contamination

Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which groups and individuals his Department consulted before taking the decision not to award ongoing payments to contaminated blood patients with HCV stage 1.

Anna Soubry: During the course of the Department's review of the support available to individuals infected with hepatitis C and/or HIV by NHS-supplied blood transfusions or blood products and their dependants in the autumn of 2010, my predecessor and departmental officials sought views from the Haemophilia Society, Tainted Blood, the Manor House Group, as well as a number of individuals who have been affected by hepatitis C. The Department also convened an expert group of clinical and scientific experts to provide advice on the natural history of hepatitis C infection. The expert advice which Ministers received during the course of the review informed the decision not to change the existing Skipton Fund stage 1 payment. Details can be found in the report of the ‘Review of the Support Available to Individuals Infected with Hepatitis C and/or HIV by NHS-Supplied Blood Transfusions or Blood Products and their Dependants’, a copy of which has already been placed in the Library.

Blood: Contamination

Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on providing ongoing support payments to contaminated blood patients who have either HIV or HCV stage 2; and if he will make a statement.

Anna Soubry: This Government has committed to provide ongoing financial support, as set out in the statement made by the then Secretary of State for Health my right hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr Lansley), on 10 January 2011, Official Report, column 33.

Chronic Illnesses

Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish the Long Term Conditions Outcomes Strategy.

Norman Lamb: Long-term conditions is one of the Secretary of State for Health’s priority areas and this was reflected in the prominence with which it featured in the mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board. Following the publication of the mandate we are working with the NHS Commissioning Board to agree the best way to Improve care for people with long-term conditions including how best to develop the Long-Term Conditions Outcomes Strategy.

Dental Services

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of practising dentists worked for the NHS in each of the last five years.

Daniel Poulter: Information is not collected centrally on the total numbers of practising dentists.
	Information is available on hospital and community health service dentists and high street dentists who have provided national health services dental services in each of the last five years. This information is provided in the following table.
	
		
			 NHS primary care dentists (high street dentists) and hospital and community health service (HCHS) dental staff, for England 2007 to 2012—England 
			 Headcount 
			  2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 
			 NHS dentists (high street dentists)(1) 20,160 20,815 21,343 22,003 22,799 22,920 
			 HCHS dental staff(2, 3) 3,940 4,221 4,342 4,035 4,030 n/a 
			 n/a = Data not available (1) NHS dentists (high street dentists) are defined as performers with any NHS activity recorded by FP17 forms during each financial year ending 31 March. Data consists of performers in general dental services, personal dental services and trust-led dental services. (2) HCHS dental staff are as at 30 September each year. Data for September 2012 are not yet available. (3) A new headcount methodology for HCHS data was introduced in 2010, due to improvements that make it a more stringent count of absolute staff numbers. Data prior to 2010 is not directly comparable. Data Quality: The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where changes impact on figures already published, this is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses. Sources: 1. Health and Social Care Information Centre Medical and Dental Workforce Census 2. NHS Dental Services of the NHS Business Services Authority.

Diabetes

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is planning to take to reduce the number of delayed diagnosis of children with type 1 diabetes.

Anna Soubry: We welcome the recent launch by Diabetes UK of a new children and young person's campaign called the 4 Ts of diabetes—Toilet, Thirsty, Tired and Thinner—which seeks to raise awareness of the four most common symptoms of Type 1 diabetes and ensure prompt diagnosis.
	NHS Diabetes have a children and young peoples network, which works with health care professionals in raising awareness of the typical and atypical signs and symptoms of diabetes in children.

Diabetes

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he has any plans to introduce a nationwide campaign to raise diabetes awareness.

Anna Soubry: The Government has no plans to introduce a nationwide campaign to raise awareness specific to diabetes. The three-year marketing strategy (2011-14) for Change4Life describes how the Change4Life social marketing programme will support local authorities; the national health service and community leaders in response to the emerging evidence base and policy priorities for obesity, which is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
	We welcome the recent launch by Diabetes UK of a new children and young persons campaign called the 4 Ts of diabetes—Toilet, Thirsty, Tired and Thinner—which seeks to raise awareness of the four most common symptoms of Type 1 diabetes.
	In addition we welcome the use of local demographic analyses to find and target effort towards communities who may be particularly at risk of type 2 diabetes. Health communities and charities have developed a number of regional and minority community schemes to improve awareness about type 2 diabetes in particular target groups.

Family Planning

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his Department has spent on family planning education (a) nationwide and (b) in Havering in each of the last five years.

Anna Soubry: The Department of Health provides information about contraception to people of all ages. The main route for getting information to the public is the NHS Choices website, which includes a number of pages on contraception, but it is not possible to separately identify these costs.
	The Department also funds the Family Planning Association to produce information on sexual health for the public and for healthcare professionals. The costs of their Sexual Health Direct service during the last five years are given in the following table and cover sexual health, not just contraception, as it is not possible to separately identify the precise spending on contraception information.
	
		
			  £ million 
			 2008-09 1.320 
			 2009-10 1.329 
			 2010-11 1.343 
			 2011-12 1,376 
			 2012-13 0.572 
		
	
	The Department has provided information on contraception as part of a number of marketing campaigns, including the ‘Sex. Worth Talking About’ campaign, which ran from November 2009 to March 2010. The campaign encouraged open, honest conversations about all aspects of sex, relationships and sexual health. The campaign featured two sub-strands, including one on contraception, ‘Contraception. Worth Talking About’. Advertising media costs for this strand of the campaign were £3,905,321 in 2009-10 and no further spending on this campaign took place after that date.
	Havering Primary Care Trust may have provided additional information and education on contraception, but the Department holds no information on these costs.
	Young people both in Havering and nationwide will also have received education about contraception as part of wider programmes of sex and relationships education (SRE). Responsibility for SRE lies with the Department for Education.

Health Services

Nicholas Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health for which responsibilities and duties for areas of activity currently undertaken by primary care trusts he has yet to identify which agencies will be responsible after April 2013.

Anna Soubry: The Department has put in place a rigorous transition programme which is ensuring that detailed functions are mapped across from primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities to the relevant bodies in the new system.
	There are currently 18 unallocated functions still to be decided. These are limited to localised PCT functions and do not affect the PCTs individual operational or statutory duties. Work is under way locally to resolve the future hosting of these functions on a case by case basis.

Health Services: Midlands

Andy Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions Ministers in his Department have had with Healthier Together South East Midlands.

Daniel Poulter: I met Simon Wood, Programme Director of Healthier Together South East Midlands, on 8 November 2012. This meeting was arranged in preparation for the adjournment debate on the 'Future of Kettering Hospital' on 9 November 2012, by my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone).

Health Services: Older People

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of progress towards preparing the NHS to deal with the implications of an ageing population.

Norman Lamb: The number of older people in the United Kingdom is projected to rise substantially over the coming decades and this increase will have a significant effect on health spending. The Department has been and will continue to monitor the implications for the national health service of this pressure. Last month, the Department committed to going further and faster on improving the care of older people, through four key priorities:
	Giving Britain some of the best survival rates in Europe for the big killer diseases: cancer, stroke, heart, liver and respiratory disease (mortality);
	Building a health and care system where quality of care is as important as quality of treatment (care);
	Dramatically improving the care for people living with long-term conditions like diabetes, asthma or arthritis—who currently account for more than half of GP appointments and nearly 3A of hospital admissions (long-term conditions); and
	Transforming our care for people with dementia so we become one of the best countries in Europe to grow old (dementia).
	Improving efficiency and productivity in the NHS and social care is crucial to coping with the demographic challenge of an increasing older population. The Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) programme will support the NHS to do this by focusing on areas where it is possible to increase quality and productivity simultaneously.
	The local NHS is best placed to identify the scale of challenge and opportunities for making savings whilst maintaining quality. Each local health economy is working towards their own vision of health system transformation to make efficiency, savings whilst continuing to provide quality care to their populations. In addition, there are a limited number of national QIPP work streams, chosen to cover areas in which there is substantial gain to be made from changing the way things are done and where the degree of challenge in making change is sizeable.
	In the first full year of delivery, the NHS has delivered strongly, with efficiency savings of £5.8 billion reported in 2011-12. At the same time, key quality and access ambitions have been maintained or improved:
	infection rates at their lowest since mandatory surveillance was introduced;
	lowest ever level of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for their treatment and both standards met each month; and
	performance measures on accident and emergency, cancer care, and dentistry waiting times have all been met.

HIV Infection

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what support his Department is providing to research into finding a cure for HIV/AIDS.

David Willetts: I have been asked to reply 
	on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	The Medical Research Council (MRC) is one of the main agencies through which the Government supports medical and clinical research.
	The MRC supports a wide portfolio of research into the causes and treatment of HIV/AIDS and in 2010-11 spent £13.8 million on research in this area.
	The MRC's portfolio aims to address the two major challenges in HIV/AIDS research: protection from HIV transmission and treatment of those affected. Protection studies include the design and development of vaccines against HIV, the development of microbicides to inhibit sexual transmission of the virus, through to behavioural intervention studies to understand how to work with high risk communities to modify behaviour. Research on treatment is primarily aimed at better understanding of how to manage antiretroviral therapy and discovering the optimum combinations of drugs for patients at different stages of disease. This is supported by underpinning basic research aimed at improving our understanding of the biology of the virus and immunology of the viral host interaction, as well as epidemiological longitudinal surveillance studies/databases and cohorts.
	Much of the MRC's work in this area is supported in partnership with the Department for International Development.

Obesity: Havering

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what steps his Department is taking to tackle obesity in Havering;
	(2)  what information his Department holds on the number of people in Havering suffering from obesity.

Anna Soubry: In October 2011, the Government published 'Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England', which sets out how obesity among children and adults will be tackled in the new public health and NHS systems, and the role of key partners.
	The document sets out details of two new national ambitions for achieving a downward trend in the level of excess weight in children and adults by 2020, and sets out existing and proposed Government actions.
	A copy of the ‘Call to action' has already been placed in the Library.
	There are two sources of data from which relevant information can be obtained about obesity prevalence—the Health Survey for England (HSE) and the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Neither source can be used to provide information in the exact format requested.
	Information on the prevalence of obese adults (men and women) aged 16 and over by strategic health authority (SHA) for 2010 is available in Table 10.3 of the 'Health Survey for England—2010: Respiratory health'.
	Information on the prevalence of obese children (boys and girls) aged two to 15 by strategic health authority (SHA) for 2010 is available in Table 11.3 of the 'Health Survey for England—2010: Respiratory health'.
	Information on the prevalence of obesity in children by government office region, local authority county/unitary authority and local authority district/former district is available in the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) in table 3A and 3B in the excel file accompanying 'National Child Measurement Programme: England, 2010-11 school year'. However, this information is only available for children in school year Reception (generally aged four and five) and school year 6 (generally aged 10 to 11). The latest year available is 2010-11.
	The above tables have been placed in the Library and can be accessed from the following links.
	www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/hse10report
	www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/health-and-lifestyles/obesity/national-child-measurement-programme-england-2010-11-school-year

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Jason McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in England in (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011.

Norman Lamb: This information is not collected centrally. According to the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (Table 3.1), the estimated prevalence (percentage) of trauma and current post traumatic stress disorder among people living in private households in England is 3%.

Schizophrenia

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department plans to take to improve treatment and outcomes for people with schizophrenia.

Norman Lamb: We know more needs to be done for people with severe mental illness.
	The Mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board identifies support for people with long-term mental health conditions as a priority area. The board is tasked with ensuring people have access to the right treatment when they need it; ensuring that people with mental health problems are offered a personalised care plan that reflects their preferences and agreed decisions; and putting mental health on a par with physical health, and close the health gap between people with mental health problems and the population as a whole. By March 2015, we expect the board and the national health service to demonstrate measurable progress towards achieving true parity of esteem, where everyone who needs it has timely access to evidence-based services.
	There are four indicators in the latest NHS Outcomes Framework 2013-14 which relate specifically to mental health (premature mortality in people with serious mental illness, employment of people with mental illness, psychological therapies and patient experience of community mental health services).
	Improving outcomes for mental health patients will also be a crucial element of success for many of the indicators which relate to all patients.

Spinal Injuries

Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  which hospital trusts with spinal cord injury centres have had their funding allocation reduced over the last two years;
	(2)  what the change in the proportion of funding spent by each hospital trust on its spinal cord injury centre has been since 2010.

Daniel Poulter: The Department does not hold the information requested centrally and it is a matter for the local national health service. Financial allocations are made to primary care trusts (PCTs), not hospital trusts. Over the three years 2010-11 to 2012-13 combined, recurrent allocations to PCTs increased by £8.8 billion. The Government always expects NHS resources to be directed to frontline patient care, but it is for PCTs to decide how much of this allocation they will use to fund hospitals, primary care, community care and ambulance services.
	Specialised Commissioning Groups, which are joint committees of PCTs, commission services from spinal cord injury centres locally.
	Information has been provided by South of England Specialised Commissioning Group (SCG) on behalf of the four SCGs. The figures in the following table for 2011-12 and 2012-13 show the funding agreed with providers at the beginning of the year and reflect planned and contracted activity in spinal cord injury centres. Information for 2010-11 is not held by South of England SCG.
	
		
			  2011-12 (£) 2012-13 (£) Percentage  c hange 
			 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 6,226,775 6,429,738 3.16 
			 Salisbury District General 6,448,331 6,748,231 4.44 
			 Buckinghamshire Healthcare 17,968,237 17,953,404 -0.08 
			 Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District General Hospital, Oswestry 4,285,390 4,307,505 0.51 
			 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 5,363,363 5,087,997 -5.41 
			 Southport and Formby Hospitals 7,503,000 7,366,000 -1.86 
			 Mid Yorkshire Hospitals 4,059,942 4,086,534 0.65 
			 South Tees Hospitals 4,111,800 4,037,788 -1.83 
			 Total 55,966,838 56,017,197 0.09 
		
	
	Small variations between 2011-12 and 2012-13 reflect the net effect of increases in the number of patients treated and productivity and efficiency saving requirements that all services are expected to deliver against.
	How each NHS Trust and NHS foundation trust uses its contractual income to resource the services that it provides is a matter for the management of that individual NHS body. Information on service-line budgeting by NHS providers in England is not held centrally.

Departmental Coordination

Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will work with his ministerial colleagues in other Departments to (a) bring forward infrastructure projects and (b)  assess procurement processes for the purposes of safeguarding (i) jobs in the UK and (ii) British industrial capacity in the steel industry and its supply chain; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Fallon: The second National Infrastructure Plan identifies a pipeline of over 500 projects costing around £250 billion to 2015 and beyond. This includes more than £1.4 billion in railway infrastructure and commuter links. These projects should make a difference by stimulating demand for steel and thereby creating significant supply chain opportunities for UK steel producers and processors. The Government has published detailed data on the infrastructure pipeline online, along with data on all Government construction projects. In addition, Government Departments are working together to ensure that business has clarity over future public sector contracts. In April of this year we published details of £70 billion of future contracts that are planned across 13 sectors over the next five years. We are working with business, including the steel industry, to use this information to assess the strategic capabilities required in the supply chain.

Export Credit Guarantees

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what average amount of credit from his Department is available to small and medium-sized enterprises seeking to export to (a) Mauritania, (b) Morocco, (c) Algeria, (d) Tunisia, (e) Libya, (f) Egypt, (g) Israel, (h) Lebanon, (i) Jordan, (j) Iraq, (k) Saudi Arabia, (l) Kuwait, (m) Bahrain, (n) Qatar, (o) United Arab Emirates and (p) Oman.

Michael Fallon: UK Export Finance's market risk appetite (that is, the total amount of risk exposure it would be willing to support for new business) for each of those countries can be found on the 'country cover' page of its website:
	http://www.ukexportfinance.gov.uk/country-cover

Export Credit Guarantees

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what average amount of credit from his Department is available to small and medium-sized enterprises seeking to export to (a) Brazil, (b) India, (c) China and (d) South Africa.

Michael Fallon: UK Export Finance's market risk appetite (that is, the total amount of risk exposure it would be willing to support for new business) for each of those countries can be found on the 'country cover' page of its website:
	http://www.ukexportfinance.gov.uk/country-cover

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Robin Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what representations he has received on the UK becoming a full member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

Jo Swinson: The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is committed to increasing the transparency of payments that extractive industries make to Governments and is supportive of EU level reporting requirements.
	We have received representation, through correspondence, from the Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the right hon. Clare Short. Additionally, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, my right hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), has had discussions with the previous Secretary of State for the Department for International Development, the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell), on this topic.

Overseas Companies

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to encourage companies originally established in the UK to retain their headquarters here.

Michael Fallon: The Department aims to retain businesses (and their headquarters) located in the UK by making the UK the best place in Europe to start, finance and grow a business by stimulating greater innovation and commercialisation of science and research; reducing regulatory burdens and improving access to finance for business; ensuring markets at home and internationally are fair and efficient in serving business' and consumers and by working with other Government Departments to improve the UK business environment. The Department also aims to create a more educated work force that is the most flexible in Europe. In addition, the Government cut the main rate of corporation tax to 24% in April this year following last year's fall from 28% to 26%. By 2014 it will reach 22%—the lowest it has ever been and the lowest in the G7.

Regional Growth Fund: Sunderland

Julie Elliott: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many businesses in Sunderland which successfully bid for the Regional Growth Fund still have payments outstanding for (a) Round 1, (b) Round 2 and (c) Round 3.

Michael Fallon: I am delighted that the Regional Growth Fund is supporting five significant projects in Sunderland as well as the £30 million North East Local Enterprise Partnership Programme hosted by Sunderland city council.
	A payment is outstanding when a beneficiary has put in a properly documented claim that we have not yet paid. There are no outstanding payments for businesses in Sutherland for Round 1 and Round 2. Selected bidders have only recently been announced for Round 3 and none have yet submitted a claim as they are currently going through the due diligence process. Therefore there are also no payments outstanding for Round 3.

Tata Steel

Andy Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will meet representatives of Tata to discuss the future of the UK steel industry.

Michael Fallon: The Department at both ministerial and official level have regular contacts with Tata Steel, including Karl Kohler (chief executive officer), to discuss the company's activities and prospects. Most recently, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), visited the Port Talbot plant on 24 October. BIS Ministers are willing to hold further meetings at the request of Tata Steel.